Gargantuan heckling at Mills betrayed Parliamentary decency - Akosah
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A former Director General of the Ghana Health Service and leading member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Professor Agyemang Badu Akosah has slammed the minority in parliament over their conduct during the delivery of the State of the Nation Address in parliament on Thursday.
According to him, the kind of ‘gargantuan heckling’ meted out to President Mills by wearing black and red attire and unnecessarily jeering him during the address was most inappropriate.
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday brandished red cards amid chants of “away, away” as President Mills concluded his address to the nation.
The behavior of the minority has been condemned by members of the NDC and a cross section of Ghanaians saying their attitude smacks of disrespect.
Speaking to Citi News, Prof. Akosah said the Speaker of Parliament as well as the leadership of the minority must call the minority MPs to order to forestall such act in the future.
He said the act betrays the decency that should be portrayed in Parliament.
Professor Akosa said: “Opposition parties would raise issues and resort to minor heckling, but to dress in black and red with a red card and to be shouting ‘away’ to the President of this country, I think it was most inappropriate. ”
He added that, “opposition parties do a lot of things but I think that this was clearly overboard and I want the Speaker herself to address this issue and let the parliamentarians meet the code of structures. ”
Source Citifmonline. com
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